Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
In life the faster u learn the better! U won't ask much of....& u won't allow Ur brain to suck any crap
The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.
People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
'Bake Off' is one of my favourite programmes, so I was genuinely a little bit shocked and very excited when I was asked to take part.
I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.
My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet, and within 15 seconds, I was printing out a certificate which allowed me to officiate at their wedding.
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.
